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Chris Hedges: The TPP is the Most Brazen Corporate Power Grab in American History | Alternet

The release Thursday of the 5,544-page text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership—a trade and investment agreement involving 12 countries comprising nearly 40 percent of global output—confirms what even its most apocalyptic critics feared.